O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest... The Quarterly Review - Page 6edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...opprest, To think that now our Life is only drest For shew ; mean handywork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, 'or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...think that now our Life is only drest For shew ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom !— We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...think that now our Life is only drest For shew ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...think that now our Life is only drest For shew ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
| Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...opprest To think that now our life is drest For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest ; Tho wealthiest man among us is the best : \" grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapino,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...think that now our Life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
| 1828 - 592 pages
...poet has some reason when he says that ' expense' is become an ' idolatry' among us. . ' We must ruo glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we...Judaeus!) of the gigantic emperor.' However, be the skull.whose it may, he found strongly marked and ample, in its upper region, what are called by phrenologists... | |
| William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...that now our life is only drest September For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur DOW in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...extremity ; but assuredly it is one that ought not to be wholly neglected. We fear the poet has some reason when he says that ' expense' is become an ' idolatry'...found strongly marked and ample, in its upper region, what are called by phrenologists the organs of self-will and veneration. We have a higher opimon of... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...To think that now our life is oiily drcst For show : mean haiicly-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom. We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
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